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Following recent reports that RSA was paid by the National Security Agency to purposely distribute broken encryptions that the NSA could crack, trust in the security industry has lowered considerably. RSA's annual...
According to the Department of Defense, the U.S. military needs to get more, better drones if it wants to continue being as successful as it is now. While current unmanned aerial...
Haiti's electronics sector was largely destroyed by a series of UN embargoes beginning in 1993 and the economy has remained stagnant ever since then. However, two tablet companies, Surtab and Handxom, aim to...
Mars One’s goal is to build the first human settlement on Mars and essentially turn the whole mission into a reality TV show, real time documentary. Despite many people being...
Netflix will be purging dozens of movies and TV shows from its list of free online streaming options starting at the beginning of 2014. One dedicated Redditor was kind enough...
Before it was shut down earlier this year, the popular black market for drugs, Silk Road, was responsible for an estimated 18% of all drug purchases in the U.S. The...
A few exploits were recently released for Snapchat, one of which allowed hackers to match phone numbers to Snapchat usernames. The company has tried to downplay the exploits and has...
Thanks to a recent scientific initiative, swimmers in Western Australia get Twitter notifications whenever there is a nearby shark. Hundreds of transmitters have been fitted to various sharks in the area...
Following the release of Battlefield 4's recent China Rising expansion pack, the Chinese government has banned EA's most successful title due to "national security" concerns. The Battlefield 4 single-player campaign takes place during 2020,...
Trying to brings its success with the music industry to the movie and TV industry, Rdio released its own video streaming service in April called Vdio. However, after only eight...
Using social-engineering techniques and remote-access tools, Pro-government Syrian hackers are using malware attacks against journalists, workers at non-governmental organizations, activists, and others. Basically any person or organization that is sympathetic to the Syrian rebels, and...
HTC has had one hell of a rough year with poor sales, a questionable future, and most especially with Nokia's recent patent win against HTC. The company was hoping to...
Crime investigators often use photographic evidence to try to catch perpetrators. Face photographs could now provide investigators with more information to catch criminals, not only in the form of facial...
This year had the most most IPO activity since 2000 with over 200 companies going public and raising a combined total of nearly $55 billion. While it's doubtful that any tech...
Samsung will unveil its next-generation processor, called Exynos, at CES next month. The South Korean smartphone maker has already confirmed that the chip will feature 64-bit architecture to compete with Apple’s A7 chip. The 64-bit...
In the past, the New York Botanical Garden was only able to digitize about 20,000 to 30,000 of its 7.3 million specimens every year. However, ever since they began using a light...
Based on a decade's research and hundreds of interviews, Microsoft researcher Danah Boyd has concluded that parents are to blame for the next generation's internet addicted kids. The gist of it is that,...
Over 40 million Target customers have been potentially affected by the company's massive data breach, thus spawning numerous lawsuits in the past week. Despite this, Target's shares have only fallen...
BitPlay, the Atlanta-based company that aims to become the PayPal of the virtual currency world, has received investments from Li Ka-shing, the richest man in Asia through his venture capital company, Horizons Ventures....
The U.S. Energy Information Administration Annual Energy Outlook report for 2014 predicts that gas-powered vehicles will continue to dominate the market for at least another three decades. The report isn't very...
